Kentuckiana Genealogy: Queries: General Queries: McCarty, Nicholas or Thomas or John: Archive through July 09, 2001

By Dave McCarty (24.214.91.53) on Monday, July 09, 2001 - 08:16 pm:

I'm tracing the family patriarch, Nicholas McCarty. My line descends from his son, John. Most of my research comes from my cousin, James A. McCarty in Gary, IN. He thinks the family came over from County Cork, Ireland in the late 1600s, after the Battle of Boyne. In the New World, the family travels from Virginia in the mid 1700s through the various parts of states that began as Virginia (PA, WV, KY) to Jefferson Co., KY in the late 1700s. Then across the Ohio to Crawford Co., IN in the early 1800s, and finally up to Tippecanoe Co., IN (my birth place) in the 1920s. Nicholas is very illusive however. To complicate matters, some say Thomas is the family patriarch, not Nicholas.